Biography

Aurélie Menaldo studied at the National Schools of Fine Arts in Lyon and Villa Arson, in Nice, where she obtained her DNAP in 2005 and her DNSEP in 2008. That same year, she completed a residency at the National School of Photography in ‘Arles and won the Neuflize Vie competition which rewards her for her photographic work. Aurélie’s artistic practice has developed through contact with multiple spheres.

She uses different mediums – sculpture, photo, video, drawing – to question the physical space and its superficial content made of artifice. She plays with the everyday environment as a setting. “I seek to create a tension between reality and imagination, evolving on the border which goes from the banal fabricated to the hidden disenchantment. I offer the viewer an almost similar universe but to observe from a slightly different angle. »

She continues her research within the post-diploma ALPes at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, Switzerland and graduated in 2010. She opens her pop and frozen universes to the public space, her work then plays with our perception of reality to question and operate a shift towards the imaginary. Through simple interventions, often carried out in situ, Aurélie inserts small shifts that stubbornly redirect the gaze and bring out new landscapes with fictional potential.

In 2015, Aurélie Menaldo participated in the group exhibition Chez-Robert at the FRAC Franche-Comté. She has also exhibited at the Octave Cowbell gallery in Metz, at Halle Nord in Geneva, in the Capsule space and recently at the Villa du Parc Art Center in Annemasse. Personal exhibitions at the L’Angle art space in La Roche sur Foron, at Hit in Geneva and at the GAC in Annonay have also recently presented his work.